Robert B. Parker, whose best-selling series about a Boston detective spawned the TV show "Spenser: For Hire," died at the desk in his Massachusetts home at 77. A spokeswoman for the Cambridge police ...

Christopher Farnsworth says it seemed like just another email from his agent. But then Farnsworth, the author of thrillers such as “The President’s Vampire” and “Killfile,” opened it, and everything ...

The private-eye novel is the quintessential form of the American mystery story, and for the past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre’s ...

"Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues" by Michael Brandman, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 274 pages, $25.95 The first one is just off the presses. And it's a doozy. Ever since the death of Robert B. Parker, ...

Ted gives an overview of Parker's writing, focusing on the Spenser character from books and TV. Robert B. Parker created the characters of Spenser and Jesse Stone, as well as many others. His mystery ...